A
"partial skeleton" means that only some of the bones or parts of a skeleton are present or found. It is not a complete set of bones.
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h. Donald C. Johanson et al., «New
Partial Skeleton of Homo Habilis from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania,» Nature, Vol.
Several paleontologists took issue with his team's reconstruction of the dinosaur, which combined the new
partial skeleton with earlier fragmentary finds of specimens that differed in size, as well as data from Stromer's surviving notes.
When Johanson and his colleagues discovered Lucy's
partial skeleton in 1974, it showed that she walked upright, confirming that our ancestors did so before their brains started getting larger.
A second species, Crichtonsaurus benxiensis, was named in 2007 by Lü Junchang and colleagues in 2007 for a skull and
partial skeleton from rocks of the early Late Cretaceous - age (Cenomanian - Turonian) Sunjiawan Formation of Beipiao, Liaoning.
The most famous fossil to be discovered from the Australopithecus afarensis species is a 3.2 million year -
old partial skeleton named Lucy, a female hominin discovered in Ethiopia in 1974.
A Neandertal child whose
partial skeleton dates to around 49,000 years ago grew at the same pace as children do today, with a couple of exceptions.
In the May 30 2013 issue of Nature, William H Kimbel, Director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University cast considerable doubt on the recent announcement in the journal Science (see the report on this website) concerning
fossilized partial skeletons found at Malapa Cave in South Africa and named Australopithecus sediba).
Ardi's hip arrangement doesn't appear in two later fossil hominids, including the famous
partial skeleton known as Lucy, a 3.2 - million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis.
Johanson discovered the famous «Lucy»
partial skeleton at Hadar in 1974, about 30 miles from Burtele.
Researchers examined
several partial skeletons of Xenicibis xympithecus, an extinct wading bird about the size of a large chicken that lived some 10,000 years ago.
The finds come from at least three individuals and include an adult male's
partial skeleton comparable in completeness to Lucy's famous, 3.2 - million - year - old remains from East Africa.
The researchers named the
Lesedi partial skeleton «Neo,» which means gift in Sesotho, a language spoken in South Africa.
University of Michigan paleontologist Philip D. Gingerich and his colleagues
recovered partial skeletons of two new fossil whales, Artiocetus clavis and Rodhocetus balochistanensis, from 47 - million - year - old rocks in Pakistan's Balochistan Province.
Researchers describe one such
specimenthe partial skeleton of a previously unknown genus of chicken - size dinosaur that roamed China's Liaoning province nearly 130 million years agotoday in the journal Nature.
In 1883, Brontosaurus excelsus — the first long - necked, whip - tailed sauropod to be reconstructed from a
fossilized partial skeleton — captured the public's imagination.
And last year, researchers found
a partial skeleton beneath the sloping seafloor that, through DNA analysis, promises to reveal the biological details of a passenger.
Two
partial skeletons, one of a male child aged 9 to 13 years and the other of an adult female, were dug up in the Cradle of Humankind world heritage site near Johannesburg by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and colleagues.
But the most promising recovery has been
the partial skeleton.
In 2004 a team of Australian and Indonesian scientists who had been excavating a cave called Liang Bua on the Indonesian island of Flores announced that they had unearthed something extraordinary:
a partial skeleton of an adult human female who would have stood just over a meter tall and who had a brain a third as large as our own.
ATLANTA — Iceland's «woman in blue,»
the partial skeleton of a young woman found in 1938 in a grave with Viking - era objects, was a child of some of the island's earliest settlers, researchers reported April 14 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
In 2008, anthropologist John Kappelman and colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin scanned
the partial skeleton of Lucy, the famous 3.18 million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis discovered in 1974.
Big Bones, Bigger Questions In 2014, Ibrahim made a splash in the international media when he published the description of
a partial skeleton of Spinosaurus, as well as a new theoretical reconstruction of the dinosaur.
An international group of researchers described the animal in August in the journal Biological Sciences, after analyzing
the partial skeletons of six individuals unearthed in Argentina in 2014.
The last big find was made by Berger in 2008: at nearby Malapa, he discovered two
partial skeletons of a previously unknown species with a strange mix of apelike and human features — the 2 - million - year - old Australopithecus sediba.
The partial skeleton of Ar.
In this courtyard, the team found two
partial skeletons, buried between 1200 C.E. and 1300 C.E. in a place of honor that suggests they were monks.
While researching fossils in a museum in 2007, Sterling Nesbitt noticed one
partial skeleton that was hard to place.
«I was... fortunate in discovering
a partial skeleton of... Diplodocus.
Discovered in Malapa Cave, located some 40 kilometers outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, the finds comprise two
partial skeletons that are nearly 1.95 million years old.
CALGARY — In 2010 paleoanthropologists announced to great fanfare that they had recovered from a South African cave two
partial skeletons of a previously unknown member of the human family that lived nearly two million years ago.
Based on analysis of more than 300 teeth, skull and lower - body measurements, Alba and colleagues assign
the partial skeleton to a new genus and species of ancient ape, Pliobates cataloniae.
The team scanned Lucy's
partial skeleton, which preserves 40 % of her bones, when she was touring the United States in 2006.
An ancient primate's
partial skeleton, discovered in northeastern Spain, is poised to downsize ape evolution in a big way.
The new specimen is
a partial skeleton with associated soft tissues and gastroliths, missing the skull and most of the caudal vertebrae.
A partial skeleton of a presumed border crosser, photographed at the Pima County Medical Examiner's office in Tuscon, Arizona, was discovered in 2009 by a horseback rider in the nearby Avra Valley.
In September 2014, the same international team of researchers, guided by Giovanni Bianucci from Pisa University (Italy), found
a partial skeleton of a mysticete whale in a rock boulder.
As a result of this bone destruction, whole skeletons are extremely rare at Aramis, with one fortunate exception:
the partial skeleton of Ar.
Partial skeleton of the archaic amphibian Timonya anneae.
There are six skulls and several hundred
partial skeletons of this new dinosaur at the Kulinda locality.
It comes in the form of two
partial skeletons of Australopithecus sediba that were dug up in the Cradle of Humankind world heritage site near Johannesburg, South Africa, by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and colleagues.
The authors state
this partial skeleton has arm - to - leg proportions differing from the forty percent complete AL 288 - 1 («Lucy») of this species and the difference is explained by sexual dimorphism (Kadanuumuu is male, Lucy female).
Her most notable work to date along these lines was the analysis of
a partial skeleton of a new genus and species of Cretaceous bird from Vega Island that she and colleagues named Vegavis iaai in the prestigious scientific journal Nature in 2005.
Both of these areas produced an abundance of well - preserved Late Cretaceous and Eocene - aged fossils, including those of birds, plesiosaurs (long - necked marine reptiles; numerous isolated bones and at least one
partial skeleton), bony fishes (including several skulls and partial skeletons), sharks, whales, unidentified vertebrates, and a variety of beautifully - preserved invertebrates (e.g., ammonites, nautiloids, gastropods, bivalves, crustaceans).